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...philosophical and the visionary deepens Stevens' poetry. At times it can be understood logically, while at other times, it can be experienced as ecstasy Academics often fail to come up with standards by which to judge such poetry How can one be objective about an experience which involves both poem and reader...
Libby points out that Eliot's move toward "the stasis of eternity" and his ultimate acceptance of a Christian, transcendent view are less threatening than say, Steven's line. Death is the mother of beauty" in the poem Sunday Morning" One of Bly's images of death as a physical joining with the earth-is even more threatening, Libby describes it as a powerful spiritual force, because it is more absolute than the topic of Christian death. The traditional view of death often seems like an enlarging of the liberated soul, but Bly's physical merging implies annihilation...
...their side. With the world awash in an oversupply of oil, the once mighty Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries could no longer dictate the cost of crude. The group's new powerlessness moved Mani Said al-Oteiba, Oil Minister of the United Arab Emirates, to compose a doleful poem that began...
...rampant eloquence can prove an embarrassment, as when one avid matron removes her brassiere and Gowan offers this verbal foreplay: "Released from their support, her breasts drooped like hanged men." And for ages now he has been unable to put words into an order that would constitute a publishable poem. As his rueful ex-wife notes, "Gowan always maintained that what he hated most about writing was the paperwork." So from campus to campus he goes, supporting himself on charm, Celtic invective and waiters' tips stolen from restaurant tables...
...While he says firmly. "In no way will Harvard or Yale do anything to commercialize it, they just want to make it special," it's precisely the absence of some lure that threatens to leave Yale bowl seats vacant and the specially designed tickets with the commemorative logo and poem untorn...